Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba
Kirill Kopotun is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba. After completing his undergraduate studies (interrupted by a 2-year compulsory military service in the Soviet Army) at Kyiv State University (currently Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) in Ukraine in 1991, he continued his education in Canada and received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Alberta in 1996. After spending 4 years at Vanderbilt University, he joined the University of Manitoba in 2000 where he has been ever since. Dr. Kopotun’s research is mostly in approximation theory, with particular interest in constrained approximation and related areas. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Journal of Approximation Theory.
Dr. Kopotun was the inaugural PIMS Site Director at the University of Manitoba (2015-2021) and has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2021.
